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This book is a Festschrift in Professor Fiddes's honour. The theme of the book is the doctrine of God which, although central to Christian theology, is not often addressed directly in contemporary scholarship. It includes chapters on biblical themes, God's relatedness to the world, and forms of human experience.
List of contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Sources of the Doctrine of God
- 1: John Barton: God, the World, and Wisdom
- 2: H. R. H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad: The Rule of Law of Love
- 3: John E. Colwell: 'In the beginning was the Word': On Language and Presence
- 4: Andrew Moore: Experience and the Doctrine of God
- Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God
- 5: Frances Young: Apath¿s Epathen: Patristic Reflection on God, Suffering and the Cross
- 6: John Webster: Non ex aequo: God's relation to creatures
- 7: Jürgen Moltmann (translated by Judith Wolfe): The Passibility or Impassibility of God: Answers to J.K. Mozley's 'Six Necessary Questions'
- 8: Stephen Holmes: 'Who Can Count How Many Crosses?': God and Salvation
- 9: Keith Ward: Freedom, Necessity, and Suffering in God
- 10: Paul Helm: Impassionedness and 'So-called Classical Theism'
- God and Humanity
- 11: Judith Wolfe: Eschatology and Human Knowledge of God
- 12: Pamela Sue Anderson: Sublimation and Sublime Meaning: Pain and Passion in an Infinite, Intellectual Love of God
- 13: Oliver Davies: Self, World and Other: Where is Wisdom to be Found?
- 14: Bernd Wannenwetsch: Creation and Ethics: On the Legitimacy and Limitation of Appeals to 'Nature' in Christian Moral Reasoning
- 15: David Burrell: 'There is at most one God': Jewish-Christian-Muslim exchange on the issue of God
- 16: Chris Rowland: 'For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory and not Caesars or Satans Amen': William Blake, Politics and Theology
- Index of Names and Subjects
About the author
Anthony Clarke is Tutorial Fellow in Pastoral Studies and Community Learning at Regent's Park College, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.
Andrew Moore is a Fellow of the Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent's Park College, and a Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.
Summary
The doctrine of God is central to theology for it determines the way in which other regions of Christian doctrine are articulated, yet work on this topic in its own right has been occluded recently by treatments of the Trinity or divine passibility. This collection of specially commissioned essays presents major treatments of key themes in the doctrine of God, motivated by but not restricted to the work of Professor Paul S. Fiddes to whom it is offered as a Festschrift.
It includes invigorating discussions of the biblical and non-biblical sources for the doctrine of God, and the section on 'Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God' examines some of the most important conceptual questions arising in contemporary theological debate about the being and nature of God, and God's relations to the world. The final section of the book on 'God and Humanity' will be highly relevant to scholars working in the fields of theological anthropology, moral and political theology, on inter-faith relations, on theology and literature, or who are interested in the impact of contemporary science on the doctrine of God. The introduction relates the essays in the book to the work of Professor Fiddes and to wider debates in Christian doctrine.
This volume brings together a team of internationally distinguished scholars from a wide range of theological, philosophical, and religious perspectives, and it will stimulate fresh thinking and new debate about this most central of topics in Christian theology.
